The right tools and processes will mitigate the impact of supply chain disruptions — and even offer strategic competitive advantage.

Chief procurement officers (CPOs) must collaborate with stakeholders inside and outside their organization — and begin thinking and acting like CEOs, say the authors of a new report from Gartner Inc.

For decades, businesses across industries have faced a particularly thorny problem: the disconnect between demand, procurement and supply chain management. 

The best-laid plan means nothing if you can’t execute on it.

“Disruption” is the word of the year. Alan Amling, distinguished fellow at the University of Tennessee's Global Supply Chain Institute, explains what it means to supply chain professionals — and why they keep "getting in their own way."

Every supply consists of two crucial elements: physical goods, and the digital systems that make it possible to move them. How can they be made in work in harmony?